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PROPERTY FROM THE RUIXIULOU COLLECTION            PROPERTY FROM THE WATER, PINE AND STONE RETREAT
                                                           COLLECTION
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         A SMALL BROWN-GLAZED ‘CONCH SHELL’
         PORCELAIN WATER POT                               A PAIR OF INSCRIBED SPINACH GREEN JADE
         QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY                        SCROLL CLASPS
                                                           RONGYA TANG HALL MARK, QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
         The water pot is crisply and naturalistically modelled in the
         form of a conch shell, with the body spiralling from one end and   Each clasp is carved on the convex side in low relief with an
         opening to a deep cavity and flaring undulating lip at the rim. The   archaistic bird’s head above two tabs, the shorter tab pierced with a
         vessel is covered to the exterior and parts of the interior with a   narrow slit. The concave reverse is carved with the five characters
         deep brown wash.                                  reading Rongya Tang cang ‘Collection of the Rongya Hall’. The
         2 æ in. (7 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box           material is of a semi-translucent, brilliant green tone with dark
                                                           specks and russet inclusions.
         HK$80,000-120,000               US$11,000-15,000  2 ¬ in. (6.6 cm.) long
         This realistic model of a conch shell belongs to a specialised   HK$30,000-40,000   US$3,900-5,100
         group of Qianlong-period porcelain crafted in imitation of the
         natural world. Compare the present lot with three imitation   Rongya Tang is the hall name of the Manchu official Qi Feng’e,
         sea shells in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated   who passed the civil service examination in Qianlong thirty-
         in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods   fourth year and later became the service governor of Jiangsu
         from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p.   province.
         405, pl. 86, and a single shell published in The Prime Cultural
         Relics Collected by Shenyang Imperial Palace Museum: The
         Chinaware Volume - The Second Part, Shenyang, 2008, p. 201.  ᪺̗㡳   ࢧᄟ   ⌅ἕׇಡːര   Ǘೳ㢣ਖⳊǘ㢘ᕋᢎ
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